Petrol cost soon below £1.00

[Junkman]

This has already happened in some parts of the country, across the street from me it's still £1.019 today.

With the cost of crude still falling, we will see even lower prices at the pump soon.

 

Although this feels like I should immediately go and buy me a Big Block with two four barrel Holleys, my driving habits won't actually change and remain at sub 3k miles a year with all cars combined. It's no longer fun to drive nowadays anyway, what with all those daft dawdlers clogging the roads and a traffic light every 30 yards and 50 OMGMPH speed limits everywhere from here to bloody Derby and all that sort of rot.

 

Does the fuel price affect your choice of car and/or driving habits?

[oldcars]

I will soon manage to fill the Rialto on £20 

[panhard65]

Unleaded dropped to 99.7 at Asda the other week but is back up at 103 again now. It didn't last long enough to get the Rolls out of the garage to fill it up, robbing bastards

[scaryoldcortina]

I'm getting great fuel economy at the moment because the car siezed its engine and I'm walking everywhere.

[Junkman]

Well, I brimmed the RoD today and saved a whopping 37p!

[dome]

Ditto here, seeing as the Forth Bridge is fucked and Fife roads are like the 7th circle of hell my fleet are barely moving. My consumption of Kellogs Start, Pancakes and other foodstuffs has increased as I cycle around though...

[Junkman]

I could fill Miss Lette for a fiver and ride it to France.

[Matt]

Didn't they say this about eight months ago and it didn't happen? I'll believe it when I see it.

[forddeliveryboy]

It's no longer fun to drive nowadays anyway, what with all those daft dawdlers clogging the roads and a traffic light every 30 yards and 50 OMGMPH speed limits everywhere from here to bloody Derby and all that sort of rot.

 

 

Answer, move where roads are quiet - the country's full of them. makes paying your road tax feel less rape-ey.

 

With fuel prices plummeting*, there's marginally less sucking in through the teeth when I have to visit a forecourt for the chainsaw or mower - neither is too happy on misfuel.

[cort1977]

Fuel cost makes no difference to my driving, traffic levels have much more of an effect which is why I cycle to work.

 

I'm going to be that guy and tell you that it's $1.79 here, which is 31p/litre.   Of course fuel duty hasn't changed since 1992 which is one of the reasons that the US road infrastructure is crumbling.

 

And I'm not happy at all because the latest dip in the oil price below $40/barrel makes it likely I will be laid off in the new year and will have to make a living doing favours for sailors...

[PiperCub]

Makes no difference to me, it is what it is and I don't really stress about it anymore but then again, my milage is well below average anyway (less than 8K per year). Could have done with these lower prices when I had my 156 V6. 

 

This is either the third or the fourth time this year I've heard the media babbling on about 'Petrol under £1/litre' and if you have had this happen then that's great but I've not seen it round my way. The lowest I've seen petrol (or diesel) has been 103p/litre.

 

So not holding my breath. 

 

The price of crude is ultimately only part of the equation as the majority of fuel price is tax and the wonderful Gideon Osbourne will soon jack up the tax level when he sees his revenue dropping. 

[Junkman]

Answer, move where roads are quiet - the country's full of them. makes paying your road tax feel less rape-ey.

 

 

The country is also full of inbred country bumpkins of which I'm scared shitless, and there is no such thing as road tax.

[Junkman]

I'm going to be that guy and tell you that it's $1.79 here, which is 31p/litre.   Of course fuel duty hasn't changed since 1992 which is one of the reasons that the US road infrastructure is crumbling.

 

 

In Europe, fuel duty hasn't been used for the infrastructure since the 1930s, it's merely a "because we can" tax since then.

The European road infrastructure is crumbling because every available Cent is pumped into Eastern Europe since 1990,

and in 2008 they ordered another crisis being rolled out, which is still ongoing, because people are to dull for the slightest

little revolution and put up with every fucking thing.

[mercrocker]

My mileage is pretty low already. Combined with Mrs R.

 

Merc - 6000pa

Minor - 3500pa

Cowley - 2500pa

T25 - 5000pa

 

Fuel cost has rarely influenced my purchase decisions, I managed to run a V8 Pontiac Grand Prix during whichever recession it was in the 1990s and I barely had £25 quid a week left to live on after my rent. I commuted a lot further with that than I do now and drove to my daughter in Devon every other weekend. I honestly don't know what any of my vehicles do to the gallon, other than a rough differential from best car to worst car.

 

Neither do I shop around for fuel (or use supermarket stuff) other than avoiding motorway service stations.

 

Until this current excitement about sub £1.00/litre I really couldn't even say what a litre cost anyway.

[dave21478]

I dont give a rats ass abut the cost - got to buy it, so I buy it. But then I have never been one for pissing about looking for the cheapest station to save a penny a litre.

 

I avoid the local garage as he is a robbing cunt and charges 30 cents a litre more than in the nearest town, but apart from that I am oblivious to the prices.

[Lacquer Peel]

Isn't the low oil price down to OPEC flooding the market with oil to kill off the fracking industry in the US? I feel bad for people whose jobs are reliant on offshore oil, things are getting bad.

 

Anyway...

 

 

[vulgalour]

I'm suspicious of the new low fuel cost.

[Asimo]

I knew fuel prices would collapse.

It is my fault for having a car that goes 70 + miles on an imperial gallon.

[Junkman]

Isn't the low oil price down to OPEC flooding the market with oil to kill off the fracking industry in the US?

 

I knew it has something to do with them fucking Muslims.

[Crusty Sills]

Its still £1.05 in rural Norfolk but then we have only just lost using Oxen for ploughing fields!!!

[Des]

As said, fuel cost is irrelevant. cost in sanity is high, having to mix with disgusting vile zombie proles that pollute every inch of road. Had an idea yesterday, seeing how the modern motorist, as a whole simply refuse to behave and allow any of our roads to work, add a traffic cop tax to fuel, wait and see if there's an improvement, if not increase the tax for more cops. Keep going until the fuckers either learn to behave with some manners or get priced off the road.

[cros]

The country is also full of inbred country bumpkins of which I'm scared shitless, and there is no such thing as road tax.

Thats a fucking disgraceful way to refer to me and my good lady sister.

[Des]

Its still £1.05 in rural Norfolk but then we have only just lost using Oxen for ploughing fields!!!

That's because the Guinea is still legal tender for your lot.

[Crusty Sills]

Guinea?

Still bartering chickens for grain!!!

[warren t claim]

Did Scotland have a lucky escape voting no for independence with oil at $40 a barrel?

[Lacquer Peel]

Scottish independence wasn't hinged on North Sea oil, it's unionists who framed it that way.

[Eddie Honda]

No

[brickwall]

Still  a quid and six pence here

[danthecapriman]

The falling cost of fuel is just a bonus for me. I don't give a shit how much it is really, I'd still buy massive old heaps of shit even if the cost went up massively. Life's way too short to drive small efficient crap, I always laugh as I blast past some peasant in an electric car.

In fact the lower the mpg figure the better the car, fact!

[beko1987]

Doesn't bother me much, I bought the zx for max mpg without the modern car lie. The xm made me sad as I couldn't afford 28mpg, and I resent having to pay to get to work any more than I have to.

 

I put £23 of derv in on Sunday which brimmed the tank from just over 1/4 on the needle. I then put another 8 litres of heating oil in earlier, despite doing many extra clicks on the pump.

 

I'd love for it to go to 80p a litre and buy a v8, but I'd probably still not be able to afford to run it...